Rat puts out a hand to steady Dean, checking to make sure he's not badly injured while he catches his breath, but of course in a moment the younger man is off like a shot again.

Shaking his head and giving a few coughs, Rat lunges back into the fray, trying to work his way toward whatever he can reach of the tentacles that actually hold people. He slashes and stabs away with grim fervor, aware the knife is too small to do any severe damage but hoping to distract and harass the creature. The trouble with distracting a multi-tentacled monster is that it already has the kind of brain that can split attention however many directions it has arms. He's just one of many nuisances.